Category: Life

One of best feelings during the winter months is cozying-up with a warm cup of hot chocolate by a fire place watching the snow fall. Living in Florida, hot chocolate is only enjoyed at a local ice rink that stays cold! These hot chocolate sugar cookies are flavored with actual hot cocoa packets to give…

Happy Hanukkah to all my fellow Jews. If you aren’t Jewish happy holidays! The start of the holiday season has started early this year December 3, 2018. While the gossip is always about a transition between Thanksgiving and Christmas, now think about Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. I’m not the one to complain so I just go…

With October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I myself will be participating in a 5k! As some of you may know from reading my blog, my beautiful mama was diagnosed this year with Breast Cancer & is still receiving chemotherapy & soon radiation. I really wanted to do something with my family & friends to…

On March 28, 2018 Ella, my beautiful mama, was diagnosed with breast cancer. We all know that early detection is key, & she is greateful that is her case. She’s currently undergoing 8 rounds of chemo, which will be followed by 5 weeks of radiation. Both will be completed by New Year. She cannot walk this…

Being in my kitchen is one of my favorite places. My mama raised me in the kitchen to help her with meals and help set the table. The picture above is my Mama & I at 2 years old circa 1994. It’s definitely something a woman should be familiar with. Baking has always been so…

When you think about dessert, what is the first thing that comes to mind? (Comment below) I love cold, sweet & chocolatey desserts. I’m talking about the good stuff, cheesecake, ice cream, tiramisu, I love them all. But ice cream is literally my guilty pleasure. There is always some sort of ice cream in my…

I love baking, especially when it’s for someone else. I made a date with my mother to scrapbook with her. We meet once a week to actively continue a scrapbook we started once my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. But I always see her more than once a week. I decided I would bring…

I dare you to smile at someone new today! I love inspirational quotes to get me through a bad day. I have a board on my Pinterest full of them! Check it out & some other amazing boards! I know you love Pinterest as much as I do. Don’t lie! What are some quotes you…

Growing up in a Russian & Jewish household, with my ancestors speaking Yiddish, I was taught what a superstition was. By definition, superstition is “a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation.” Truly meaning you believe in something for a reason,…